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Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Where Is Everybody!?

I have been pondering my swap makery for FQR 2014 and wondering where everyone has gone!

Trash has been trying to rally the troops with the name tag and sample swaps on flickr, but it all seems awfully quiet.

I know many of my partners in crime will be missing this year, sob, but, c'mon!

Day tickets are now available for the Saturday, the super-duper class lists have been released, and promises of a more intimate weekender than last year's scorching craziness, but not this intimate, surely?!

Anywho, I have made progress with my swapsies today, I also mailed off an extra-curicular name tag, which I will show you when the recipient has received it.

I have also been sketching...

... and cutting, and wondering if making a couple of dozen, limited edition, super-souvenir key fobs is in order.

27 comments:

It will be so weird not being there. While you are getting stuck into classes I will be on a ferry on Saturday somewhere between the uk and holland. I know you will still have a brilliant time though. And we've got October.

I'll be there, so if you get desperate you can always hang out with me.....!!! Must admit that since Flickr's gone all weird on the phone with Yahoo logins (curses!) I'm not checking in to flickr as much. Must try harder! And your key fobs look v exciting :) x

I'll (hopefully) be there! got ticket and accommodation sorted. Holding out on the swaps for now as my mum just passed away and I want to see how much time I have left when I get back as there are bee blocks to do which people are waiting for first, which is only fair I do them as soon as I get some time... then I hope I can join some swaps and things. fingers crossed!!

I'm contemplating a day ticket since they announced them, still not sure, but I'm so close it seems silly not to. I can't see what classes are available for the Saturday either which doesn't help. I don't understand the Flickr thing as it is still pretty much the same aside from logins, but then I don't use it on my phone or iPad, which I know has gone weird and hard to use. Hmmmm...

I'm going, but I have to agree it has been pretty quiet on the buildup! I only signed up to the swaps last week, as you can't see the blinking discussions from the apps, maybe we all need to moan on the Flickr feedback!

I'll 100% be there with bells on! I wouldn't miss it for anything. That said, I haven't signed up for swaps, etc. I just can't manage it. Ah flickr. I abandoned when they "upgraded" the site. IG has stolen my heart.

I rarely admit it but I am a Jack Bauer fan too!! ( I was so excited to read that comment!). And sadly I am flying out of the UK on the weekend of the retreat but if you do make key fobs I would love to buy one :-)

I'll be there (obviously otherwise the classes I am teachign would be a bit pants!). I think one of the problems is the cost doing it every year, you can probably justify it as a one-off or for two years but then it does get really costly if you live outside London. I also agree with all the comments about Flickr, which is such a shame, it was a really integral part of our community until they ruind it, and though I love IG it doesn't have the 'chat in a group' capacity that worked so well in Flickr. But this has been a timely reminder that I need to check our the swap threads on there now!!

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